> Twitter is basically running on autopilot now since a large amount of people left or were fired. "Running on autopilot" is probably an even better analogy th

> Twitter is basically running on autopilot now since a large amount of people left or were fired. "Running on autopilot" is probably an even better analogy than you intended. There have been incidents of pilot incapacitation in aircraft, in which the aircraft continues flying for a long time following its programmed autopilot targets, until the fuel gets exhausted and it crashes. See for instance the 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_cras...), the 2000 Australia Beechcraft King Air crash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Australia_Beechcraft_King_Air_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Australia_Beechcraft_King...), and a few others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression#Gradual_decompression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression#Gra...).